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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 13, 2009
Raymond L. Abma, Houston, TX (US);
Raymond L. Abma, Houston, TX (US);
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for Interpolation of seismic data with a POCS (projection onto convex sets) algorithm that can produce high quality interpolation results, at a reduced computational cost. In particular, optimizing the threshold calculations, allowing for aliased data, allowing the algorithm to skip unneeded Fourier transforms, and parallelization makes the method more practical and robust. Robust interpolation of aliased data may be done by limiting the calculations of the beginning iterations to the lowest temporal and spatial frequencies included in the data, then gradually allowing higher temporal and spatial frequencies into the following iterations.